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Thanks for the answers everyone, very informative

Nah, I never liked VM's, I like vintage hardware for the nostalgia aspect of it. I would never use it for anything other than surfing the net, and even then, never with any personal info...if it gets a virus, no biggie. Or to put it another way, it's that Model T we were talking about...I like...

Ok, fair enough....but let's do a "what if". What if I used the fastest possible processor with 98 (which I believe is around 2 GHz), the most ram (512 mb), and the most recent Opera browser that works with Kernelex/98 (which is still pretty recent)...could I have a machine that's at least...

Thanks, I do see the difference. But again, I ran a version of Opera that was maybe a year old at the time...even though it was considered a modern browser, it still wasn't any faster. If we take the browser out of the equation, is Win98 itself simply unable to handle today's internet?

Oh, and it's all content....doesn't matter what it is, it's always slow

Over the past couple of years I"ve had 6 Win98 computers, and all of them take a long time to load pages...some to the point where I had to reboot the computer because they took so long/wouldn't respond. Hardware has been everything from a 400 MHz PII to a 1.8 GHz P4 with 512 mb of ram; makes...

I'm surprised there aren't more answers here...I figured there would be some ebay veterans that have been through the same thing, and know ebay policy. I don't want to list something that gets flagged again and lose my ebay account....

Thanks Saga for all of your help, and everyone else that replied. Unfortunately, I think I'm out of luck on this one....I think the o/s has corrupt files, and that they were corrupt before I made the restore disks (meaning that they are corrupt too). I think the only way I can save that comp is...

Thanks ulysses, I thought the same thing. What is frustrating is that it appears that not even ebay knows it's own rules, and so I can't appeal it. I just want to make sure I"m ok if I list another one, so that I don't get my ebay account suspended. I'm interested in more opinions...

I was selling a Win98 comp on there and ebay removed it, the reason given was "copyright violation; unauthorized item". Now, I know it is illegal for me to install a different copy of 98 than what came with it and then sell it, but this was already installed when I got the comp. I called ebay...

Thanks for that info. I"m wondering though; if the problem is indeed in the o/s, wouldn't copying it simply carry the problem to the new drive?

Well, I haven't tested the disk I just put in, maybe I better do that first to make sure it's good. But I am at a total loss as to how to clone my old system onto the new disk. My old HD has XP o/s on a partition; I was able to do a fresh recovery with the recovery disks I made when I bought the...

I've got an update; I now know the problem is definitely either in the o/s or the hard drive...and the hd passes Seatools tests and also Scandisk with flying colors, so I'm leaning towards the o/s itself. How I found out; I remembered I had an old hd with XP Pro installed on it, so I threw it...

I replaced that when I replaced the heat sink/fan assembly (barely used the computer since). Thanks for the link. I tried installing CPUID twice from two different sites, but it would not install correctly on my machine; instead of looking like the screenshots that have all of the different...